Last name origins & meanings:
- German: occupational name for a wheelwright, from an agent
derivative of Middle High German rat ‘wheel’.
- German: metonymic occupational name for a flour sifter
or mill hand, from Middle High German reder
- German: occasionally an occupational name from Middle Low German
- German: from a Germanic personal name composed of
the elements rād, rāt ‘advice’, ‘counsel’ +
- German: Americanized spelling of German
Röder (see Roeder).
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